Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 26 84
Rank change year-on-year +3 +58 +32
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 194 136 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.70% 7.80% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.73% 8.28% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 103 29
10th Percentile £400 £413 £360
25th Percentile £463 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £755
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 1,643 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.33% 94.21% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,101 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £773 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.15%) Confluence
2 8 (4.12%) Apache
2 8 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.03%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.03%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.52%) Maximo
3 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.38%) Azure
2 29 (14.95%) AWS
2 29 (14.95%) Power Platform
3 15 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (5.67%) GCP
5 11 (5.67%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.12%) SaaS
7 6 (3.09%) dbt
7 6 (3.09%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.09%) Serverless
8 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.58%) GitHub
8 5 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.58%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) Network Security
2 2 (1.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.03%) Firewall
2 2 (1.03%) Internet
2 2 (1.03%) LAN
2 2 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.03%) VPN
2 2 (1.03%) WAN
2 2 (1.03%) Wireless
3 1 (0.52%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.52%) PSTN
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) VLAN
3 1 (0.52%) VoIP
3 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.40%) Power BI
2 19 (9.79%) Metadata
3 14 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.15%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.06%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.06%) Power Query
6 4 (2.06%) Star Schema
6 4 (2.06%) Tableau
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.55%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.55%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.03%) Looker
8 2 (1.03%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (9.28%) JIRA
2 3 (1.55%) GitLab
3 2 (1.03%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.52%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) JUnit
4 1 (0.52%) MLflow
4 1 (0.52%) Mockito
4 1 (0.52%) MSI
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 83 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 73 (37.63%) Finance
3 35 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (16.49%) Banking
5 29 (14.95%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.73%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.64%) Retail
8 7 (3.61%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.09%) Marketing
10 5 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.06%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.06%) Front Office
12 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.55%) Police
12 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.03%) International Banking
13 2 (1.03%) Local Government
13 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (18.04%) Architect
2 30 (15.46%) Analyst
3 26 (13.40%) Lead
4 22 (11.34%) Data Architect
5 20 (10.31%) Senior
6 17 (8.76%) Business Analyst
6 17 (8.76%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.19%) Consultant
8 10 (5.15%) Developer
9 8 (4.12%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.09%) Change Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.58%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.06%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 4 (2.06%) Junior
12 4 (2.06%) Programme Manager
12 4 (2.06%) Security Architect
12 4 (2.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.70%) PySpark
2 9 (4.64%) Terraform
3 8 (4.12%) REST
4 4 (2.06%) XML
5 3 (1.55%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.55%) JSON
5 3 (1.55%) Kafka
5 3 (1.55%) Middleware
5 3 (1.55%) Spring
5 3 (1.55%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.03%) Flask
6 2 (1.03%) React
6 2 (1.03%) RESTful
6 2 (1.03%) SOAP
7 1 (0.52%) .NET
7 1 (0.52%) EDI
7 1 (0.52%) OpenID
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.52%) SAML
7 1 (0.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.67%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.61%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.55%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.03%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.03%) FMCG
7 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.52%) BYOD
8 1 (0.52%) CMDB
8 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.06%) Linux
2 3 (1.55%) Unix
3 2 (1.03%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (27.32%) Agile
3 46 (23.71%) Decision-Making
4 41 (21.13%) Analytics
5 36 (18.56%) Data Governance
6 35 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (18.04%) Data Modelling
7 34 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (17.53%) Roadmaps
8 33 (17.01%) AI
8 33 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (15.98%) DevOps
10 30 (15.46%) Migration
11 26 (13.40%) CI/CD
11 26 (13.40%) Data Architecture
12 21 (10.82%) Requirements Gathering
13 20 (10.31%) Project Management
14 19 (9.79%) Data Engineering
14 19 (9.79%) Data Transformation
15 18 (9.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.01%) SQL
2 23 (11.86%) Python
3 9 (4.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.61%) Bicep
5 4 (2.06%) Java
6 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.03%) LookML
7 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.52%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.52%) Korn
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.52%) Scala
8 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.67%) Degree
4 7 (3.61%) PMP
5 5 (2.58%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.58%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.03%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.03%) OSCP
9 1 (0.52%) APMG
9 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) GPEN
9 1 (0.52%) IIBA
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.67%) PMO
3 10 (5.15%) GDPR
3 10 (5.15%) QA
4 7 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.61%) NIST
5 6 (3.09%) NCSC
6 4 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.03%) GRC
8 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (1.03%) PERC
8 2 (1.03%) SLA
9 1 (0.52%) APQC
9 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (3.61%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.03%) Istio
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.40%) Databricks
3 16 (8.25%) SAP
4 7 (3.61%) Oracle
5 6 (3.09%) Google
5 6 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.06%) Informatica
7 4 (2.06%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.55%) Workday
9 2 (1.03%) BMC
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco
9 2 (1.03%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.03%) IBM
9 2 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.03%) Remedy
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Teradata
9 2 (1.03%) VMware
10 1 (0.52%) Anaplan